Wichita's 4th generation garden center started as a small fruit and vegetable stand in the 1920s on the outskirts of town at the corner of Douglas and West Streets in Wichita, Kansas. As the business grew, Harold Johnson, with his father Orie, bought 5 acres of land on West 13th Street, and opened Johnson's Garden Center. This location is still operating today!

With the ever changing demands of customers, and the surrounding neighborhood growing by leaps and bounds, Harold and Orie decided they needed to renovate and expand the location, and finally had to add another location in the 1970s to accommodate customers on both sides of Wichita. This second location was opened at Central and Edgemoor, and in the spring of 1983 was relocated to the current east location, near the corner of 21st and Woodlawn.

In 1995, Johnson's added 2 more locations, a seasonal/flower shop in Derby (which operated until 1996), and the 802 North Ridge Road location (which operated until 2014).

Today, Johnson's continues to operate out of two locations in East and West Wichita, Johnsonsgarden.com, a Production Facility, and a Landscape Distribution Center, serving customers and landscape companies not only locally, but around the state and nation as well.